单词 | charge-house |
释义 | charge-housen.ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > boarding school charge-house1598 pensiona1652 tabling school1660 boarding school1677 board-school1740 pensionnat1840 residential school1876 pension-school1902 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 77 Do you not educate youth at the Charg-house on the top of the Mountaine? View more context for this quotation 2. A house or building in which cartridges are charged and made up. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). > as lemmascharge-house charge-house n. (a) a building in which prisoners are detained on a certain charge; (b) a workshop in which explosive is loaded into shells, etc., in an explosive factory, also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > explosives powder-mill1645 corning-mill1794 shot-tower1835 hill1897 charge-house1900 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > place of detention or lock-up roundhousec1437 cagea1500 stress house1505 lock-up1746 goose-house1841 booby hatch1859 prison camp1865 hold-over1888 booby-hutch1889 charge-house1900 1900 Daily News 14 Aug. 5/4 Three hundred and eighty suspected persons found themselves lodged in the fort. Another four hundred and fifty..in the charge-house. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §149 Charge house man (gunpowder),..wheels bogies (small trucks) of raw materials..between stores and scattered workshops of explosive factory. < n.1598 as lemmas |
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